Guns of the South 2

htgriffin

MerryPrankster said:
Well, as of the end of "Guns of the South," the vengeful USA has conquered Canada and Russia has sold it Alaska.
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You know, I never quite grasped why the Union so often goes after Canada after losing the ACW. If the UK is willing to back up the Confederates they are also willing to shell the Eastern Seaboard.

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Johnestauffer

The CSA had data on where natural resources were located and their future value. They could have started a 'colonization' program in the middle east for example to get control of the oil resources even though they were not immediately needed.
Just knowing what was necessary for advancing technology would give them a substantial advantage.
They might not industrialize but rather market 'ideas' and get rich from the royalities.
Knowledge is power and in that arena the CSA of GOTS would have the rest of the world by the short hairs!
Given the knowledge base - what would happen to slavery? As things became more modern the need for warm body type slave labor would decline. You would have to give them a basic education just to allow them to provide services in the new world. (Maybe they would transport the slaves back to Africa)
Unfortunately this is probably to rationale of a 'next step' for the GOTS. It needs to be more dramatic.
 

Timmy811

With the slaves emancipated isn't it possible that the nations eventualy end up reintigrating after a couple of decades.
 

Strategos' Risk

zoomar said:
I think a good sequel to GOTS might be set about 5-10years after the events in Part 1. In this novel, other than the AK-47's and technology which could have been back engineered from these, very little modern technology has been widely introduced. As Stratego's Risk suggests, the CSA has set up a very secret research institute to study the modern technology and control it's introduction into the world. The existence of time travel is hidden. The novel would be set, not in the CSA, but in either the USA or Britain, and focus on the gradual discovery by US or British intellegence services that something might be very unusual in the CSA. It becomes essentially a spy novel as attempts are made to discover the truth behind the sudden CSA technological innovations. Perhaps this eventually prompts a brief war between the US and/or UK and the CSA in which the Southerners get to trot out some additional super-tip-top-secret future stuff. War spins out of control, CSA and Afrikanners have a complete falling out, CSA is eventually deferated, pandoras box is opened and world goes even more to hell in a handbasket.
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I liked this idea a lot.
 
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